Jaana Kouri – författare

Studying environmental changes to the seas and oceans through a variety of perspectives and disciplines, this pioneering book outlines the challenges of researching marine environmental issues.With no linear cause-and-effect relationship between marine environmental changes and the often human-induced stressors which produce them, the changes to our seas and oceans are complex and uncertain, arising from multiple and interconnected issues. Bringing together academic expertise from different fields of study, this innovative book engages with stakeholders and branches of local ecological knowledge to address marine changes, outlining how they must be studied from multiple perspectives rather than a single academic discipline to reach effective solutions. Discussing marine interdisciplinarity in action, the book features international case studies from diverse fields across the ocean sciences, humanities and social sciences that explore art and science collaborations in practice.Showcasing the practical challenges and opportunities of such research, this will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars across such subject areas as environmental governance and regulation, marine and ocean sciences, sustainability studies and climate change. Its findings will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners concerned with marine changes across the world.

Studying environmental changes to the seas and oceans through a variety of perspectives and disciplines, this pioneering book outlines the challenges of researching marine environmental issues.

With no linear cause-and-effect relationship between marine environmental changes and the often human-induced stressors which produce them, the changes to our seas and oceans are complex and uncertain, arising from multiple and interconnected issues. Bringing together academic expertise from different fields of study, this innovative book engages with stakeholders and branches of local ecological knowledge to address marine changes, outlining how they must be studied from multiple perspectives rather than a single academic discipline to reach effective solutions. Discussing marine interdisciplinarity in action, the book features international case studies from diverse fields across the ocean sciences, humanities and social sciences that explore art and science collaborations in practice.

Showcasing the practical challenges and opportunities of such research, this will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars across such subject areas as environmental governance and regulation, marine and ocean sciences, sustainability studies and climate change. Its findings will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners concerned with marine changes across the world.

This book explores the act of writing and its many roles in the Study of Religion. It examines writing as a tool and technique, from research notes and field diary entries to the publication of scientific articles and monographs. The book further inspects the role of creative writing in religious studies, and its use to break free from otherwise restrictive conventions of academic writing. And finally, it looks at the technique of creative writing and how it can be combined with a wide variety of neo-spiritual practices: prayer and sleep diaries, magical rituals, descriptions of visions and shamanic journey, and messages channeled from the spirit world. Writing as a Tool and Technique in the Study of Religion is a fit for scholars in the Study of Religion, Esotericism, Theology, as well as Creative Writing.

Mikä samanismissa kiinnostaa länsimaista nykyihmistä? Jaana Kourin Tulitanssi on voimakirja kaikille samanismista, henkisestä tiestä tai ihmisen ja ympäristön välisestä suhteesta kiinnostuneille.Samanismin tutkija ja harjoittaja Jaana Kouri kutsuu lukijan mukaansa omakohtaiselle matkalleen kohti samaaniutta. Tulitanssi on sekä vahva henkilökohtainen kannanotto että katsaus nykysamanismiin Suomessa.Teos seuraa kirjoittajan elämää ja kasvua samaaniuteen 1960-luvulta nykypäivään. Samalla lukija oppii perusasiat samanismista ja tutustuu voimaeläimiin ja henkiopettajiin.Jaana Kouri on uskontotieteen dosentti Turun yliopistosta. Hänelle samanius on opettamisen ja parantamisen lisäksi näkymättömän näkyväksi tekemistä kirjoittamalla.